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I love to learn, and at some level, there's something to learn from my books. And I love art and philosophy, so there's something philosophical about my fiction.

Art Books Fiction Learn
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It's part of me, Scotland. I'm still immersed in it even though I am not there.

Am Even I Am Immersed
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We have plenty of technologies we could use to destroy the planet, and we don't. There's more love on this planet than hate; there's more creativity than destructive power.

Love More Power Hate
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Sometimes I work purely 8-12 shifts, banging stuff into the computer. Other times, my office is like a scene from a detective movie, with Post-it Notes, plans, photographs all stuck on the walls and arrows going everywhere, and it's 4 A.M.

Arrows Banging Computer Detective
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There will be no justice as long as man will stand with a knife or with a gun and destroy those who are weaker than he is.

Destroy Gun He Justice
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A story to me means a plot where there is some surprise. Because that is how life is - full of surprises.

Because Full How Life
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We are now at a point where we must educate our children in what no one knew yesterday, and prepare our schools for what no one knows yet.

Children Educate Knew Knows
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One of the oldest human needs is having someone to wonder where you are when you don't come home at night.

Come Having Home Human
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We have nowhere else to go... this is all we have.

Else Go Nowhere
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A city is a place where there is no need to wait for next week to get the answer to a question, to taste the food of any country, to find new voices to listen to and familiar ones to listen to again.

Again Answer Any City
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I would like to be Maria, but there is La Callas who demands that I carry myself with her dignity.

Carry Demands Dignity Her
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The anger and the creativity are so closely intertwined with me, and there's plenty of anger left.

Anger Closely Creativity Intertwined
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There are so many books I want to read. Difficult books. That's what I intend to do and what I'm longing for.

Books Difficult Intend Longing
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On a personal level, there are many people who have meant a great deal to me. My father and mother were certainly of vital importance, not only in themselves but because they created a world for me to revolt against.

Against Because Certainly Created
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There hasn't been anyone with whom I can discuss my scripts. Even when the film is done, there is no one I can show it to who gives his sincere opinion. There is silence.

Anyone Been Discuss Done
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Don't talk to me about rules, dear. Wherever I stay I make the goddam rules.
About Dear Make Me
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There is something joyous about not talking.

About Joyous Not Talking Something
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There is great treasure there behind our skull and this is true about all of us. This little treasure has great, great powers, and I would say we only have learnt a very, very small part of what it can do.

About Behind Great Learnt
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I can do everything with ease on the stage, whereas in real life I feel too big and clumsy. So I didn't choose acting. It chose me.

Acting Big Choose Chose
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There are advantages to being a star though - you can always get a table in a full restaurant.

Advantages Always Being Full
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God is always seeking you. Every sunset. Every clear blue sky. Each ocean wave. The starry hosts of night. He blankets each new day with the invitation, ‘I am here.’

Ocean Sunset Night New
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There is always a price to pay for whatever you want to achieve in life.

Price Pay Achieve Life
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If one is not appreciated where he comes from, it would be hard for outsiders to support you.

Appreciated Comes-from Outsiders Support
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Oh God who works in secret, restore our world to its former glory. Restore the weakening economies of nations to a place where there is abundance for all.

God Secret Restore World
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Remember that success is not hereditary, you have to carve out your own.

Success Hereditary Carve
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South Africa is not our problem, we are. Every black man is tribal, and when it suits us. There is NO Nigerian that hasn’t suffered some kind of discrimination due to tribe.”

Problem Black-man Tribal
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Our parents may be tough on us; however, the most important thing a father can do for his child is being there and showing up.

Parent Tough Father Child
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How much do you believe in yourself? How much do you believe in what you carry on the inside? This is where success starts from. Believe in yourself, let it become a state of mind. Everything is foreign.

How-much Believe Yourself
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Choose your friends based on your destiny. Do not associate yourself with just anybody. You have to be pragmatic about who you allow into your life. You have a destination, the company you keep will determine how and if you will get there

Friends Destiny Associate Life
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Identity is a funny thing, just when you think you have defined yourself. There is always another chapter or another challenge. It is all about getting out of your comfort zone. Until you do you’ll never know what you are capable of.

Identity Funny Defined Comfort-zone
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There is a specific location for you to be valued. Don’t put yourself in the wrong place and get angry at how you are treated. Who knows your value is who appreciates you, don’t stay in a place that doesn’t suit you. Know your worth!

Location Wrong Place Angry
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There ain't nothing from the outside that can lick any of us.

Any Lick Nothing Outside
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What most people don't seem to realize is that there is just as much money to be made out of the wreckage of a civilization as from the upbuilding of one.

Just Just As Much Made Money
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I want peace. I want to see if somewhere there isn't something left in life of charm and grace.

Charm Grace Left Life
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In our nature, however, there is a provision, alike marvelous and merciful, that the sufferer should never know the intensity of what he endures by its present torture, but chiefly by the pang that rankles after it.

After Alike Chiefly Endures
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You are born an artist or you are not. And you stay an artist, dear, even if your voice is less of a fireworks. The artist is always there.

Always Artist Born Dear
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There must be a law against forcing children to perform at an early age. Children should have a wonderful childhood. They should not be given too much responsibility.

Against Age Childhood Children
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The sad part about our past is that religions, ironically enough, are responsible for creating the most destructive idea that has ever been visited upon the human race: the idea that there is such a thing as 'better.'

About Been Better Creating
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It graduates to 'our state is better than your state', and 'our nation is better than your nation.' And it circles all the way around to where it started: 'Our God is better than your God.'

Around Better Circles God
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I still believe that the one thing that will bring peace, absolute peace, to this country, the type of peace we want attached to development, is to liberate Ndi Igbo and there is no better act of liberation than accepting that they have equal right in Nigeria.

Peace Nigeria Development Liberate
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What I have become, in this struggle is the mouthpiece of my people. I go where they push and no more.

People Mouthpiece Struggle Push
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If a leader accepts himself as already dead to society, there will be no reason for cowardice in his leadership.

Leader Society Dead Cowardice
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There is no humiliation I have not endured, no snare that has not been put in my path, no setup that has not been designed for me in my endeavour to use the path of peace to enforce the mandate that you bestowed on me one year ago.

Humiliation Endured Snare Enforce
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As we move into the 21st century, there's what the Bible calls a 'quickening of the spirit.'

21stCentury Bible Calls Century
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There’s always going to be challenges no matter which way you turn. It’s about how you face them.

Always Challenges Face Them
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If we are to be fruitful in life and enjoy the harvest of honor, accolades and recognition, we must realize that there are no shortcuts.

Fruitful Enjoy Harvest Honor
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There is no greater education than one that is self-driven.

Education Greater Than Self-driven
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Where non-professional who have the capital run an industry, mediocrity thrives.

Where Non-professional Capital Mediocrity
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As a Nollywood actor, I can appear and disappear in movies but I don’t do all that by myself. Technology makes it possible. Today, there is technology available for everything, so farming today shouldn’t be with machete and hoes like our forefathers did.

Actor Appear Disappear Movies
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Many, many people hereabouts are not becoming Christians for one reason only: there is nobody to make them Christians.

People Christians Reason
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